Savannah is one of the YouTube vloggers to whom my kidlet subscribes. I just happened to be in the room this week as she exhorted her viewers to view others complexly and by trying to understand others and their experiences, we begin to understand ourselves better. Out of the mouths of babes, as it were.

But it's something I've been thinking a lot about this week. When the workers voted against unionizing the new VW plant in Tennessee, I heard a lot of otherwise sharp progressives piss and moan about the stupidity of Southerners operating against their interests. But here's the thing that smug outside liberals aren't getting: they *are* voting their identities. We can't get their votes by calling them stupid. We can't get their votes by dismissing them as a lost cause because of their home region. What we can do is to try to understand them--complexly. And to let them get to know us. We can work helping them identify more with us than them. And maybe we can then start pushing the narrative back to what works for most Americans instead of the few elites.

And then maybe I can stop seeing George Bush, Bill Kristol, John McCain, George Will, Tom Friedman, David Brooks, Rick Perry and all these other wealthy conservatives with whom no ordinary Americans should identify on my damn television Sunday after Sunday.

NBC's "Meet the Press" — National Security Adviser Susan Rice. Political Roundtable: New York Times columnist David Brooks, New York Times White House Correspondent Helene Cooper, Co-Anchor and Managing Editor of the PBS NewsHour Judy Woodruff and Host of MSNBC’s “Hardball” Chris Matthews. Energy policy: Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird and Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune. Olympian Mark Wells.

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CBS' "Face the Nation" — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Govs. Bobby Jindal, R-La., and Martin O'Malley, D-Md. Margaret Brennan, CBS News’ State Department Correspondent. Panel: Jonathan Martin, national political correspondent for The New York Times, Dan Balz, chief correspondent for The Washington Post, Amy Walter, national editor of The Cook Political Report, and our CBS News political director John Dickerson.

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